...the Flash can be used to track your movements on a website? And that all those lovely, pretty fancy Flash effects on a lot of sites are also carrying "cookies" that are used to track all the sites you go to?

We've all hear about them. Software like AdAware works to prevent cookies... but not the FLASH cookies, because Flash works outside the browser not as part of it like the usual kind of programming cookies do, and therefore can work "outside the rules" that the browsers have all followed for years. And don't think that marketers aren't using that to huge advantage.

Yep... like having a GPS that anyone can log into to see where you are and find out what you're doing.

Read more about it here.

Lesson: Never assume that anything you do on the Internet is ever private.

And never take the security of your computer for granted.. you can bet hackers are looking for any way into your private data they can find.